Editing on a 32" HDTV is so sweet!!!

I had a very horrifying experience last Thursday when I work up.

(And no it wasn't seeing Mr. Ambello naked, lol!!!)

My 6yo Dell workstation I setup for editing died in the middle of a project.

So it was off to my favorite computer store to buy a replacement.

They had a really sweet HP Vista system for 479 that I bought and had in my apartment for less than 6 hrs before taking it back because none of my old editing software worked.

So I settled for the system I wanted in the first place which was a reburbed Dell Optiplex Desktop with a 3 GHZ Intel processor, 4 gigs of RAM, DVD lightscribe, a 500 gig internal drive and most importantly XP Pro.

I know it's a tab bit old and doesn't have a video card, but it has plenty of power to run the apps I edit with.

I have a similar machine at work and it only has 1gig of RAM and chugs along beautifully. I can't tell you how many nights I'm at work burning DVDs, surfing the web and editing or rendering video all at the same time on the same PC.

So i figured if I can do that with an old 3GHZ Dell that only 1 gig of Ram imagine with I can do with 4 gigs.

Anyway I just wanted say how much fun it is to edit on my big TV and the good news is my old PC is working just fine again, but I think the USB bus is dying or something since it wasn't seeing two of my external drives that other day.

If anyone need an under powered Dell to play on they have a bunch base models starting around $189 and that gets you a Dell 3GHZ with a gig of Ram (or maybe 512), 40 gig HD, and DVD burner (which you have either own or find free online DVD burning software and DVD decoder codecs to watch movies since the refurb company is only licenced to load XP not nothing else.)

Oh well back to editing my latest project for work.